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Making Art While Waiting to Die
Trench art tells a lesser-known story of WWI, demonstrating the human inclination towards art in even the most apocalyptic of settings.
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Extra Credit: Holiday Grab Bag Edition
Candy colored bathrooms, the sex cult to presidential assassin pipeline, and Lois Duncan's childhood Christmas cards
Dec 29, 2025
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Pretty Vacant
On Cynthia, the mannequin who became a real girl, and the strange love affair between humans and their imitations
Dec 22, 2025
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Is This Vigée Le Brun Portrait Cursed?
A centuries-long trail of death and misfortune has followed Vigée Le Brun's final portrait of Marie Antoinette. Is this a coincidence or the result of…
Dec 1, 2025
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Lost Poems From Angel Island
Hidden poems, carved into the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station, reveal the dark history behind the "Ellis Island of the West"
Nov 10, 2025
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The Sex Cult Behind Your Grandma's Silverware
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The Year Without Summer
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The Record Keepers
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A Home's Hidden Sole
Concealed shoes found in walls, chimneys, and floorboards are unveiled as historical talismans, warding off evil for hundreds of years
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Extra Credit: The Glow and the Grave
From radioactive rest cures to mobile x-rays on the Western Front: all the extra details that didn't make the final post
Oct 13, 2025
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The Glow and the Grave
On the famed Radium Girls, whose luminous work exposed the deadly cost of America's early-20th century radium craze
Oct 6, 2025
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Hole-Punched History
In the FSA archives, photos of The Great Depression are marred by an empty black void, forever obscured by the perfunctory click of a hole-punch.
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Le Menu Zoologique
On the Parisian Siege of 1870 and its...ahem...exotic associated cuisine
Aug 18, 2025
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Five of my favorite historical non-fiction recs to keep you learning, even on summer vacation
Aug 4, 2025
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Death & All His Fabrics
As Henry Mayhew observed, "Our grief goes for nothing if it is not fashionable."
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